Overview

In 1950, KRSC-AM radio broadcast from a station at this address. KRSC was one of Seattle's earliest radio stations, well-known for its progressive programming and creative talent, both on- and off-air. The station's main owner, Palmer K. Leberman, was president of the Radio Sales Corporation in 1926, for which he named the station's call letters.

Building History

In 06/30/1927, Palmer K. Leberman (1899-1977), an Annapolis graduate, radio salesman and owner of a Kelvinator refrigerator dealership in Seattle, and his managing partner, electronics businessman Robert E. Priebe (d. 1998), began broadcasting radio programming from the former's residence at 251 and 1/2 40th Avenue North. Their station relocated frequently, to the Henry Building in the Metropolitan Tract downtown, Washington Athletic Club (WAC) Building, and then to Leberman's Kelvinator showroom building on 5th Avenue. By the late 1940s, it operated from this site at 2939 4th Avenue South. (See Peter Blecha, HistoryLink.org, "KRSC: Seattle's Radio and TV Pioneers," published 03/06/2010, accessed 05/31/2018.)

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